Margaret J. Yankovich

Margaret J. Yankovich is a public librarian who has a BA in English and Cultural Studies from Chatham College for Women and a Master of Information in Library Science from Rutgers University. She is the manager of the Cherry Hill Branch at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland. Her life outside the library is spent researching and writing scholarship about horror literature and film, with particular areas of interest in disability studies, monster theory, body horror, and queer studies. She has presented her research at various conferences, including PCA/ACA (2021, 2022), SWPACA, and the UVA-Wise Medieval Renaissance Conference. Her work has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fantasy and Fan Cultures and will next have her writing featured in the edited collection, Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen King’s IT , forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi.